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How To Use GPS Mapping for Walleye | Fish'n Canada
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Apr 15, 2025
In this episode Pete Bowman travels the Algoma district to Loch Island Lodge on Wabatongushi Lake. He is confronted not only with finicky Walleye gorging on mayflies, but a crazy loon trying to steal his catch! Pete still manages to score some great fish with the help of new technology from his Garmin electronics. Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- WEBSITE: http://fishncanada.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/fishncanadaofficial/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Pete Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years #Season31 #FishingCanada #Fishing
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he's gonna change the fishing role right
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here in this stuff yeah this is this
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technology is pretty cool stuff this is
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the craziest thing I've ever seen in my
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life
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I've never seen that before that is the
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well folks were back in the wonderful
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district of Algoma 22,000 square miles
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of fish filled wilderness encompassing
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the largest crown Game Reserve in the
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world the shallow crown Game Reserve and
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we're in the middle of it at Locke
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Island Lodge on rabbit ohnkoji Lake I'm
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here on a special mission if you will
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with the help of my friend and Garmin
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electronics expert Danny Thompson so
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we're gonna just basically map this
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sucker out we're gonna take an existing
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map like on the Garmin charts right in
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the lake view charts a Canadian Language
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Arts and then we're gonna defy it and
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change it and make it that much better
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right it's that a lot of definition to
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it so that's perfect was and you know
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what we're gonna find but I think we're
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gonna see so much by doing this I can't
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wait to figure that stuff out again so
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it's gonna be fun I can't wait to see it
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can't wait my brother
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the new garment technology that Danny
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and I are using today is called
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quick-draw contours and that's exactly
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what it does with the aid of the latest
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and greatest chirp technology which
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translates to compressed high-intensity
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radiated pulse and accurate and
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permanent picture is drawn right before
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your eyes our sophisticated sonar sends
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out an up pings to scan 150 feet on
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either side of the boat and in real time
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draws new contour lines on our chart
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plotter in 1 foot increments now we've
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talked about structure before but let's
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review it so you can understand what
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quick-draw is actually doing structure
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is any change in contour at the bottom
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of a body of water that causes a change
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in depth points vertical shorelines like
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Bluff walls ledges and old river or
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Creek channels are some examples now
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this is this technology it's pretty cool
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stuff I mean this the ability to find
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new fishing spots so you can see where
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it's colored that's actually the area
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that we're recording so when we come
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back we can do like where we call it
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mowing the grass we'll come back we'll
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just make sure that we keep connecting
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the green I will cover that area
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completely yeah your new quick-draw map
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is recorded and saved on an SD card
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which can then be viewed in the echo map
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and GPS map Garmin lineup and finally
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you can even share your new Maps on the
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Garmin Connect community website how's
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that for technology now the one thing
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about we're driving the boat really slow
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here but that's just because I'm just
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taking all this in because I've never
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done this before ok Danny's just giving
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me the lowdown but as long as your
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transducer is reading clearly if your
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boat goes 20 mile an hour with a good
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reading you can do this right you can
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really map quickly so so don't think
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it's you have to drive this slow I'm
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just doing this finish oh I'm enjoying
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it and taking it all in you know what I
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mean it's so cool
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this is gonna change the fishing world
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right here this stuff that's coming up
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nice I like that see that's cool because
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that's something that wasn't even on
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this map and so we just we just drew
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those contour lines with that little
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hump right there and it never even
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existed on this exactly so you know now
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we know there's a fishing spot here
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there's a rock pile I can see it on side
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view and our traditional yeah right here
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there's a bunch of fish right here just
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stacked up right behind that rock pile
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so you can see the rock filed school of
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fish right now with lap news question
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the right on that working that edge
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now you can mark a waypoint on that by
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the way too right yeah so so we'll come
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down we'll put a we'll put a waypoint on
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them and that's why this is important
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you can see those fish are nineteen
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point three feet behind us already so
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that's that's the benefit of being able
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to do that so I'm just gonna come in
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here I'm just gonna hit mark and we will
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have a waypoint
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right on that spot okay you know what
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we're doing turn around I'm gonna see if
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we can pop our to one of those fish
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we'll have a little fish time and then
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we'll go back to working some more stuff
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and finding more areas and mapping it as
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we go
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why not try and catch one too while
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we're at it see what they were right you
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know
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back in the day you know laid marker
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boyo boom boom boom boom you know what I
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mean but now with your fish finder and
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then GPS drawn you a trail like that
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it's a no-brainer
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that's a good bike what take him is this
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fun one that's a bonus absolutely like I
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said I was surprised but a pike wasn't
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biting this yeah exactly
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look at him there is he does not like
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knocked he does not like our boat does
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it I'm gonna pull the boat what I was
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speaking of which just a little bit just
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about right let's get him in the net and
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then we'll that was fun if nothing else
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right absolutely pulls a drag right yeah
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beautiful it's a nice pike okay look at
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the slime coming off and there's your
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Canadian Pike right there everybody
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yeah that's fun nicely done man that's
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fun let's see if we can't get a few more
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of those got on them oh he's eating good
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yeah put them back but that's a great
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fish look at the belly on that fish that
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is a nice fish awesome he'll take off
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like crazy
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that's awesome ah good job okay
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now catch a walleye that size and you're
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my hero okay okay done
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pull out my secret bait here that's fun
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though that's fun that was fun
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now when Garmin comes up with fish
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finding technology like that lose got
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but what you've got it all covered then
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those things are they've got amazing my
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goggles yeah you got the underwater eyes
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then the Garmin loon doggles this is
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awesome technology then we've fully
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drawn the contours on this point and
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we're just working the contours that we
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drew today man I'm proud of this fish I
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love the way the lines are all joining
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up now and I'm starting to draw the
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perfect picture right
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you go a little deeper and doesn't
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really you know if we made another pass
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you know the more choices you make the
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better it's almost done up between us
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like this right and that's that's the
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beauty of it you don't you don't have to
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come math your whole way you just do
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your hotspots to kind of have a butter
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better understanding what's down there
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yeah and why the fish were there or to
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find the spot on the spot right
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sometimes that's the key right you're
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saying I'm getting the odd fish here
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whatever and all of a sudden Fang
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there's one three brock's sitting in one
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spot and all the Sun there's three small
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modes that are always in this big
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small mo if they live around that area
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or something that's like wow that's why
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this is this is awesome technology
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one problem we may have on this shoe is
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there's a may maple at me for my hats
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just starting to happen and that can
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just knock the heck out of ya man that
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y'all hurt so that could hurt real bad
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when a mayfly hatch happens walleye they
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just can't help themselves it's the
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easiest food for them to get so they're
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gonna be they're hatching from the on
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the bottom muddy bottoms I think really
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is where they I think is what if they
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start the bottoms they hatch up and
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these walleyes they just sit there just
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swim through this stuff that's hatching
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and just eat and eat and eat so you know
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the larvae that the hatched things that
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come up whatever it is they just eat it
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all and you the hatch is not big time if
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you're get lucky enough to catch the
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fish clean them to keep to eat them
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belly be ready for a just a full of
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black bugs and they don't eat anything
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else
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they don't want minnows or anything I
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think they will but they try not to so
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in case you're wondering you've seen
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Danny and I turn a lot of this Lake with
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this new technology that's quickdraw
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technology we've all been doing it
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sitting at the helm and driving the boat
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around blah blah blah what we do now is
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we stop the boat keep it on and we can
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still charge that correct yeah so we
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actually you know we're fishing we got
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our our traditional sonar screen up and
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we're just kind of sitting your work in
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this brake line that we we started a map
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on and and as we fish and move up the
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line we're continuing to draw our map
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and make it better and even fill in some
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of the holes that we might actually
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missed when we when we came through the
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first time okay that's cool so yeah cuz
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you'll see when you're running this
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stuff it's gonna need just leave this
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little path out there but you've got all
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kind of overlap the pass
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if you don't overlap it there's a little
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white spot or get the color shading on
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it's a little white spot and then what
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are you saying is that you just fill
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that in when you're fishing and then by
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the time you're done if we fish this
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point real thoroughly for you know two
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or three hours you've got a charter by
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fishing it too so that's awesome
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did you know that lakes in Ontario are
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classified by scientists based on their
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fertility the classifications are
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derived from Greek terms and their
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oligotrophic meso trophic and eutrophic
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the ancient Greek word trophy means
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nutrients so the trophic nature of a
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lake describes how rich in nutrients it
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is this can depend on many things
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including the depth area watershed size
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adjacent land use and climate
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oligotrophic lakes have a low nutrient
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content they have deep clear water rocky
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and sandy bottoms and very little algae
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this is a common lake trout habitat
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eutrophic Lakes have a high nutrient
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content and are found where the soil is
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more fertile and where there's a lot of
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farmland eutrophic Lakes are shallow and
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have murky water and mucky soft bottoms
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this is the lake type that largemouth
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bass thrive in meso trophic lakes are in
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the middle when it comes to nutrient
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content they have clear water with some
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algae bloom in late summer these lakes
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are perfect for walleye
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northern pike and smallmouth bass with
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all this diversity at our doorstep it's
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a easy choice to go fish in Ontario
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there's one got one there we go hey John
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look at the drop-off perfect yeah we
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gonna contour we drew is Ian etter new
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it feels like a good one yeah I've
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grabbed the net on this guy why not
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they're few and far between comes there
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he comes
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that's a tough fight buddies we'll take
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that fish they like today a bite like
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this when the mayfly hatches on and
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there's tons of little minnows right
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here any of these fishes are good right
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is it tough it's a tough bite then we've
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fully drawn the contours on this point
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and we're just working the contours that
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we drew not a giant fish but on a day
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like today man I'm proud of this fish
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look at head weaponry right there who's
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that is cool they're just beautiful I
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mean he's got almost like a blue it's
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he's plating all that pretty cool when
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the boys and they're having a camp like
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Locke Island and they want to jump shore
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lunch fish that's the perfect walleye
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right there for Shore lunch we're gonna
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put them back because the boys have
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already got some from yesterday so so
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we're good nicely done and throwing him
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back nicely done drop right by your jig
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there Belleek release a beautiful there
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he goes all right brother
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all right we're getting there let's see
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if we can get a couple more we're
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getting there we're gonna a nice point
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here now we went through again we just
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graphed the point like that with her
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with our charts didn't you know we
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didn't have to because we got the depth
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finder we've the fish finder rate so
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we're seeing the contours in the breaks
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but now we're really defining it now
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we've got this written out and there's
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little bends and little subtle stop now
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and he got the straight up but 15 to 13
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and she starts going like that no it
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drops away off over here we know exactly
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what we're fishing now so and they're I
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mean they're biting stop I'm literally
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just dragging it down that wall right
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that's almost have to do that in these
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crazy bike days you know what I mean on
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these days it that there may for I think
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he's Fisher Paul and they're not there's
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certain there's two buddies to a walleye
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there is nothing oh hey they'll be all
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aggressive but otherwise just like is
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that bottom resent a fish that you feel
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alright so good job buddy go maybe we're
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onto something that's nice I like that
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this is a perfect spot this is perfect
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the Loon was right up that point wow
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there's so much bait down there again
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yeah that's what he's all he's just
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gorging on anything he wants right I've
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never seen that before help Ontario
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buddy Canada
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yeah okay pike I'm not sure but yeah
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let's see what my kids in walleye it's a
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pipe is it
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it is a loom you're going after my fish
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see this you see that it's a walleye
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that's a nice this is the craziest thing
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I've ever seen in my life I've never
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seen that before because we're trying to
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see what kind of fish it was then all
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these there he is right there
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can you imagine a loon is going after a
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fish this size I said on that fish poop
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like that and I thought oh you know
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decent half decent like that reel him in
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he's got a glimpse of it Danny says I
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think it's a pike but he probably saw
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the speak of the Loon and then I I'm not
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gonna say what's going on here and this
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big white blob underneath it
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Wow I love it that bit that fish right
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there
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I almost got struck down by a loon that
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is the most bizarre thing I've ever seen
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a walleye fish that is I mean that I
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looked because it was really it was like
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it was pumping out like a pipe yeah it
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was trying to get away from the lunes
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what I was doing
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yeah because they normally don't like
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that heart oh that's so awesome you
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deserved a little buddy he's safe out
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there because she's a tough world got
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Pike and loons after him Hey Ontario
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buddy Canada oh yeah I got it all like
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that as unique as this lunataks seemed
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to be to Danny and I we found out later
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at the lodge that Cornelius the infamous
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loon was well known in these parts as a
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stalker of boats and attacker of hook
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fish this rule is trying to steal our
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why
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unbelievable you never know what to
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expect on an Algoma fishing trip
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today's hot spot is a rocky point about
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midway up the southern portion of Wagga
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Tonga she lake in the Algoma region of
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Ontario the way pointing to screen will
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get you there
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we found fish anywhere from 8 to 20 plus
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feet deep so definitely use your
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electronics to scour this area for fish
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we graft and chart at this point
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extensively so the laws now knows
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exactly what's going on under the
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surface
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slow death crawlers along with regular
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jigs and ice fishing jigs worked best
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for us as well this is the spot where we
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encountered the infamous Cornelius the
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fish stealing Lou quite the sight to
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behold
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for more hotspots like this one check
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out fishing Canada calm
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[Music]
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now we have this beautiful map of the
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spot we got our sonar look at the fish
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under the boat right now yeah yeah and
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that's the big one I think we need to
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catch that one like they'd wanna do a
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swim and do Wow
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we might have found some big ones here
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let's see if we can dig one up but oh
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[Music]
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holy good I got my drag sitting real
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loose there's my big big northern it's
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staying down like a walleye though is
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the thing unless I put it in his belly
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cause I'm jigging it
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yeah well building a wall I'd head but
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he doesn't like a wall it feels like a
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big wall it does this is big head
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shaking his head like they don't know
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it's a nice fish I mean this whatever it
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is a good fish this is what we're here
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for
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yeah whatever it is is a dandy please be
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a walleye
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in the mouth that's what I'm hoping for
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I got this drag says so lose cause he's
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gonna take another run you know what it
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doesn't feel like a pike because he
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should have taken off like 100 miles an
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hour right and he's staying straight
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down yeah don't go out this could be
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good I don't want to lose this fish oh
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yeah look at this oh hello I I honestly
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think this is a big walleye yeah you
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know what I think I do too the ways
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fight and he doesn't taken off like a
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northern like a crazy northern he may
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yeah but right now everything has been a
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moment boom head shakes just look at
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that you gotta like the head jig
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don't ya just pumping I'm like shaking
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it my knees right here I'm excited I but
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I'm baby in this fishbowl just let you
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know because I want this fish thing to
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come in so I'm really baby in it I'm not
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letting anything I mean if he gets off
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he gets off but we're out in deep throat
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knowing deep hug before we know Dan
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we've drifted out into 22 feet of water
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right now yeah and actually I can see
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that fish yeah no big deal to do that
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he's big here we come area that's the
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big one
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hang on buddy anything about - he's in
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the most
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that's a great wall my god that's a
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gorgeous beauty a nice wall I mean I got
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that tank of all I owe and I say and I
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noticed something I said they will get
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out in the back the scar on her back
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there I don't know what that maybe a
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pike or something did that how was that
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for a walleye what a fighter lobby she's
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not your huge it's a great that's a pic
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well especially for Northern Ontario Wow
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the agama region like I said that's a
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fantastic fish up here but wow look at
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that
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just up you and look at the golden belly
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on it like that peace Fisher that's like
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that old fish up here for them to get
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that big up here they've got to be
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pretty I am exactly big eyeballs on our
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two buddy look at that that's a great
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fish hey that was fun that was fun to
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church don't we excited I love a graph
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in the whole area out the whole nine
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yard long you fought so well little yeah
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look at that she goes whoop beauty fish
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a stealth-attack your honor fellas
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awesome nice to me this trip to Locke
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Island Lodge was very rewarding
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although catching big walleye was tough
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through to the mayfly hatch I came out
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of it with newfound knowledge I learned
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how to completely revised old outdated
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hydrographic charts and as well start a
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new journey if you will in learning how
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to interpret with the finest of detail
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every lake and river I hit from here on
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Lookout fish we just added a new weapon
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to our already deadly arsenal
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to get to today's newly map walleye
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water I first drove north on highway 400
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to 69 I turned Northwest on highway 17
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and then turn northeast on 519 to the
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town of d'Urberville from there it was
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dirt roads to the meeting area of this
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drive to Lodge please no Locke Island
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Lodge has a strict policy of using only
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their camp boats we were granted special
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access in order to update the camp's hot
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spots with our advanced government
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mapping system
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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today's Kop is cape or knowledge in
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today's case knowledge of my electronics
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by having an electronics expert from
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garment with me today I get to go over
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all the latest and greatest features of
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these units and then I can use that from
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the rest of the season I could even take
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it back and tell aunt Hey look at this
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we're always learning and fishing it's
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all about knowing all your equipment to
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make you a better angle the fish in
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Princecraft boats dominate the waters
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and Garmin fights your fish not your
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